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Institute of the Regions of Europe

Scientific institute in Salzburg, Austria

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 26, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
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The Institute of the Regions of Europe (IRE) is a scientific institute located in Salzburg (Austria) and was founded on 21 December 2004 by Univ. Prof. Dr. Franz Schausberger, former governour of the Land Salzburg. The Institute is part of the Institute of European Regions (non-profit) private foundation, which was founded in autumn 2004.

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Editorial reviewUseful for establishing the present vocabulary of the subject while preserving a route back to the evidence on which that vocabulary rests. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2004—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Institute, Regions and Europe can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the science & nature register because the source frames it as scientific institute in Salzburg, Austria. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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This entry incorporates text from “Institute of the Regions of Europe” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.